Using NMAP to ping IP addresses

[chrisrowlands]

I am new to NMAP and want to use it to ping an ip range from 10.2.148.0 - 10.2.150.255. I want to be able to Ping Scan every computer in that address poll and if it returns a ping I want to output just the IP address of a computer with each additional ip address on a separate line.

I have started out and got this far:

nmap -v -sP 10.2.148.0/24 > c:\test.txt

This script works for all ip addresses in the 148 range but when it outputs it there is a header and then loads of information about ping response times and pings that are dead, but all I want is pings that are alive each on a new line. I know this must be possible but after hours of reading I figured someone on here would know straight away.

Any help would be amazing

Thanks

Chris

[Primey]

im guessin you're running nmap on windows? because of the C:\test.txt

and if i understood right, you want an output with the pings that are alive in that range

i recommend using linux here, bash scripting can help a lot on the output file

example:

cat test.txt | grep open | cut -d" " -f2 > 148-range.txt

that gives you an output on the 148-range.txt file of all the ip's in the range, again, this is just an example, you might want to give a read or two to a bash scripting manual or tutorial

might wanna start here

[thorin]

If you're doing this in windows just do a batch file using a loop with:
ping -n 1 <target>

If %ERRORLEVEL% coming back from ping is 0 then the host was pingable, so write it to your output.

Assume lst.txt contains your IP list (you can do nmap -sL 10.2.148.0/24 > lst.txt to generate the list)

@echo off

for /f "tokens=*" %%I in (lst.txt) do call :pinger %%I
goto :eof

:pinger
ping -n 1 %1 
if %ERRORLEVEL% ==0 echo %1 >> pingLOG.txt
:: DONE

Now pingLOG.txt has a list of IPs that were pingable.

[streaker69]

If you're doing this in windows just do a batch file using a loop with:
ping -n 1 <target>

If %ERRORLEVEL% coming back from ping is 0 then the host was pingable, so write it to your output.

Assume lst.txt contains your IP list (you can do nmap -sL 10.2.148.0/24 > lst.txt to generate the list)

@echo off

for /f "tokens=*" %%I in (lst.txt) do call :pinger %%I
goto :eof

:pinger
ping -n 1 %1 
if %ERRORLEVEL% ==0 echo %1 >> pingLOG.txt
:: DONE

Now pingLOG.txt has a list of IPs that were pingable.

Damn, you are an old timer if you're writing things like that in Batch files. Most kidlings today don't know what a batch file is.

[chrisrowlands]

Thanks for all your help guys worked a treat! I think I will stick with the nmap at the moment as windows ping takes a while.


Cheers again